It is not merely the unrelenting push-pull of the show's writing, but the "His Girl Friday" chemistry between the actors Hugh Laurie (House) and Lisa Edelstein (Cuddy) that inspires otherwise reasonable women to bizarre, time-consuming digressions of fantasy. By "otherwise reasonable women" I am not referring to the cohort of [YouTube fanfic montager] Duchesscloverlys but to the person typing these words on my laptop.